ANTARCTICA
On all five continents
every year, flowers bloom
but only in Antarctica,
flowers remain in gloom.
In this way I can explain
a kingdom of a mysterious spark;
Envious that it can’t bloom
it froze at the edge of dark.
O God, I have but one shyness,
Antarctica is what I fear,
because it can’t see the flowers
the day to freeze them is near.
Translated from Albanian to English
By Alfred Kola
